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title: The Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh I… — Somaliland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who purportedly traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women: one from the local Dir clan and the other from the neighbouring Harari people. Who acts: Isaaq people, Isl
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# Somaliland, sentence 49

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From Wikipedia, [«Somaliland»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who purportedly traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women: one from the local Dir clan and the other from the neighbouring Harari people.

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**Who acts:** Isaaq people, Islamic scholar · **What happens:** claim, descend, travel, marry, neighbour · **To what, where:** Sheikh Ishaaq, Somaliland, 12th, two women · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Somaliland». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Isaaq people, Islamic scholar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Somaliland:49
# text = The Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who purportedly traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women: one from the local Dir clan and the other from the neighbouring Harari people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Isaaq	Isaaq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	claim	claim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Sheikh	Sheikh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ishaaq	Ishaaq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	bin	Bin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	purportedly	purportedly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Somaliland	Somaliland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	12th	12th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	20	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	13th	13th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
28	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	Dir	Dir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	amod	_	_
46	Harari	Harari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | present | the Isaaq people |  |  |  |  | traditionally *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **descend** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  | Sheikh Ishaaq |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ishaaq=Location |
| 3 | **travel** | past | a Islamic scholar |  | Somaliland | the 12th or 13th century |  | purportedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to somaliland=Destination |
| 4 | **marry** | past | a Islamic scholar *not said here* | two women |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |
| 5 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Somaliland», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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